Erythranthe rubella |
Erythranthe chinatiensis |
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little redstem monkeyflower, red stem himulus, redstem monkeyflower, redstem or little redstem monkeyflower |
Chinati Mountains monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, taprooted. | Perennials, rhizomatous, sometimes rooting at nodes, mat-forming. |
Stems | erect, simple, sometimes branched from basal nodes, 3–32 cm, minutely puberulent. |
procumbent, branched, 5–20 cm, glabrous. |
Leaves | cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear to elliptic, 5–22(–30) × 1–5 mm, base narrowed, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces minutely puberulent. |
cauline; petiole 2–10(–20) mm; blade palmately 3–5(–7)-veined, ovate to broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate, 4–15(–22) × 4–15(–18) mm, base truncate to cuneate, margins shallowly denticulate or merely mucronate to mucronulate, teeth 3–6 per side, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous, adaxial sometimes moderately villosulous, hairs vitreous, flattened, eglandular or minutely gland-tipped. |
Flowers | herkogamous, sometimes plesiogamous, 1–106, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
plesiogamous, 2–8, axillary at distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow and abaxial limb and throat red dotted or pink to purple and throat yellow, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 4–10 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 3–5 mm, lobes entire or weakly notched, abaxial limb glabrous. |
yellow, red-dotted, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 7–8 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 6–7 mm, abaxial limb strongly reflexed, lobes fimbriate. |
Fruiting pedicels | 2–18 mm. |
10–20 mm, glabrous. |
Fruiting calyces | becoming red-angled or red, campanulate to nearly cylindric, 4–9 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, glabrous or minutely puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins ciliate. |
nodding 45–90º, 5-lobed, ellipsoid, inflated, sagittally compressed, 5–6 mm, glabrous or sparsely villosulous-glandular, throat closing. |
Capsules | included, 3–8 mm. |
included, 4–5 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe rubella |
Erythranthe chinatiensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Feb–Sep. |
Habitat | Open slopes and washes. | Seeps in vertical cliff faces, wet bluffs. |
Elevation | 300–3000 m. [1000–9800 ft.] | 600–1900(–2300) m. [2000–6200(–7500) ft.] |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; TX; UT; WY; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora)
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TX |
Discussion | Erythranthe chinatiensis is similar to E. parvula in its prostrate habit, five-lobed calyces, and fimbriate corolla lobes. It differs from the latter in its nearly glabrous leaves and strongly reflexed abaxial corolla lip. Erythranthe chinatiensis is known only from Presidio County but should be expected to occur also in adjacent Chihuahua, Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 384. | FNA vol. 17, p. 424. |
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Synonyms | Mimulus rubellus, M. gratioloides | |
Name authority | (A. Gray) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) | G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-40: 86, figs. 12–14. (2012) |
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